Dear Alex,

I want to thank you very much for our recent telephone conversation, and 
for your sympathy and understanding of my medical situation. I discussed
it with Klemens as we drove home from the airport at 12:30 a.m. this
morning, and he did not object to my suggestion to postpone diagnosis
and possible treatment until whatever ails me prevents my engaging in
the activities (it's pretentious to call them "work") that presently
pre-occupy and satisfy me, and to accept the risk that treatment later 
might be (much) less effective than if it were given now.

After our telephone conversation I felt so much better that I asked myself
whether to stay well, I really needed anything more than talking with you 
from time to time.

Love, Jochen